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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Fundamentalism
Paul
Triumph
Historical
Christ

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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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